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Deaf Artist Christine Sun Kim Is Reinventing Sound

For artist Christine Sun Kim, sound is a “ghost.” The multiple-MFA-holding Senior TED Fellow who has had a Whitney Museum residency and exhibited at MoMA, has been profoundly deaf since birth. The sonic hush in which she lives has pushed her towards exploring sound through her work in a varied oeuvre of performance, installation, drawing, and video.

Initially, Kim strove to translate sound into direct visual terms. She experimented with vibrations, placing coated paintbrushes and inked quills on wooden boards atop subwoofers and speakers pulsing with ambient noise. Her process resulted in lovely minimalist paintings, audibles turned objets d’art. But the project felt like translating a text using only half the alphabet. “Low frequency sounds—vibrations—only make up a very small fraction of the sound world,” she explains. When it came to capturing the rich tapestry of Kim’s lived experience with sound, this approach fell short.

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We’re having a pardy! It’s an Internet IRL Party and it’s gonna be wacky. 

Saturday 2 May, 5pm- late South Kilburn Studios, 2A Canterbury Road, London NW6 5SW.  

Event- https://www.facebook.com/events/1589113184690499/

Artists and live music tba. Tickes five pounds, pay at the door.

*****All proceeds go towards printing issue 4*****

“Fresh off the boat” by Ayqa Khan

WOMEN IN ELECTRONIC MUSIC

this is a mix i made to to highlight women in a genre that is predominantly male, from bbc radiohphonic workshop pioneers delia derbyshire and daphne oram to modern dance producers like nina kraviz. because women have historically been limited to being vocalists or “performers” in electronic music, i wanted to emphasize the production aspect and chose to emit more vocal oriented genres (e.g. synth pop and trip hop). this page is a decent reference if you want to find out more. 

ART SHOW // POETRY READING

@ The Silent Barn 603 Bushwick Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11206

free entry; no bones about it

april 19th

doors @ 6 pm readings @ 6:30 pm gallery gaze until 10 pm

zines ‘n’ patches 'n’ beer 4 sale!!!

============================================= For their collaboratively curated exhibition Discomfort, Comfort, the-coven and HAG invite artists and writers to engage notions of safe spaces, self care, and trigger warnings. How might these terms, and their presence in feminist discourse, queer theory, and identity-based communities, on occasion serve to reconsolidate the very structures of power they purport to dismantle? And how might these disjunctions be rendered generative? =============================================

readings by:

Clara Lou Jennifer Tamayo Lara Lorenzo Monica McClure

art by:

Anneli Goeller Amanda Craig Cutesy Bataille Erin Baillie-Rütter Eleanor Rose Quartz Hobbes Ginsberg Jasmin Risk Katharina Keller Laurence Philomène Liv Thurley Patricia Alvarado Simone Blain

(image by Jasmin Risk & Laurence Philomène)

DIASPORA DRAMA ZINE: ISSUE 01 IS HERE! CLICK THRU TO READ

Diaspora Drama is a zine dedicated to creative, offbeat and cool people of colour in cyber space. Our first issue features an interview with M.I.A.’s personal photographer and founder of the Black Balloon Archive, Liz Johnson-Artur, an interview with future Kurdish superstar Cany Dilan, an editorial by Shabab Int clothing’s Mohammed Hasoon, art by Sanaa Hamid, Rayanne Bushell, Daku and a lot more including poetry and essays exploring identity and culture. 

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have faith in cyber space •*•*•*

Lipgloss on canvas

Call for Submissions: OOMK Issue 4

Theme: The Internet

Deadline 15th March 2015 

The theme for issue 4 is The Internet, any written words or visual submissions related to the Internet are welcome. Here are some ideas: blogging, social networking, Internet art, GIFs, early memories of the Internet, predictions, experiments, virality, memes, time, identity, visibility, privacy and celebrity.

More general submissions relating to women, spirituality, creative practices and exploration are also very welcome. OOMK love surprises so if you’ve got something special send it out way!

email submission (including high res images) to oomkzine@gmail.com

Please read a copy of OOMK or a preview copy before submitting work.

SNAP CRACKLE POP

in light of all the islamophobic content being produced post-charlie hebdo, i wanted to shift some focus to the idea that not all of us 2 billion muslims in this world are the monstrous, violent villians that the media loves to portray us as. some of us r chill, cute bbs like these two sweet hearts that i shot. this is part of an on going series that im working on—creating positive images of muslims by muslims to really illuminate the humanity in our people. shout out to all the brothers and sisters living in this day and age where its perfectly legal to publish hate speech on san francisco public transit.

you can check out the rest of the these photos here: http://www.rookiemag.com/2015/01/snap-crackle-pop/

INTERVIEW ☆･｡･☆ GRACE MICELI

"It’s really important for me to be able to instil confidence in younger female artists”

Who better to start our new series of interviews with creative babes than our recent collaborator, artist and writer Grace Miceli. Founder of Art Baby Gallery, an online exhibition space that is specifically interested in providing a platform to showcase work by female artists - Grace shares her inspirations and tips on how to sell your art.

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HOW DO YOU SURVIVE? is a questionnaire about your personal coping methods and healing process.

Participants will answer questions about survival, coping mechanisms, and significant changes in your life. Participants can remain anonymous, but we will be asking for your name and age. Remember that older participants may respond solely about experiences in their youth. There are no deadlines for these replies and all questions are optional.

These responses may be published on our site or upcoming zine.

Email us with any questions regarding this project.

radgirlcollective@gmail.com

This is a time to focus on trans women: their strength, their resilience, and most of all their vulnerabilities. By working toward holistic justice that will allow trans women - especially trans women of color - to live their lives under their own terms, we will further untangle the complexities of oppression faced by other marginalized groups. But we must begin with trans women. When trans women face the majority of violence faced by LGBTQ people; when 1-in-8 transgender women of color will be killed during their lifetime; when these statistics don’t fully display the disproportionate violence lodged against trans women; when the conversation is derailed to make room for an agenda that silences and actively excludes trans women. 

This is a time to focus on trans women: their livelihoods, their unique identities, and the systematic and institutionalized violence they face every single day. This is a time to shut up and listen. Trans women are literally dying to be heard - to simply exist - so use the privileges afforded to you to amplify their voices. Trans women deserve space in this world to thrive, as opposed to simply surviving. Make it a resolution to better the lives of trans women around you and beyond you. Remember that this isn’t about you. Listen.

Elysia t (via cokeinaglassbottle)

革命万岁

Long live the revolution